{"id":1599,"date":"2014-06-01T02:54:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T02:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arnoldbiffna.com\/?p=493"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:35:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:35:05","slug":"mookiedata-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/2014\/06\/01\/mookiedata-c\/","title":{"rendered":"MookieData C#"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 504px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1599-1\" width=\"504\" height=\"374\" poster=\"https:\/\/d3od4vl78dd97d.cloudfront.net\/blogimages\/mookiedata2.jpg\" preload=\"auto\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/d3od4vl78dd97d.cloudfront.net\/blogvideo\/mookiedata2.mp4?_=1\" \/><source type=\"video\/webm\" src=\"https:\/\/d3od4vl78dd97d.cloudfront.net\/blogvideo\/mookiedata2.webm?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/d3od4vl78dd97d.cloudfront.net\/blogvideo\/mookiedata2.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/d3od4vl78dd97d.cloudfront.net\/blogvideo\/mookiedata2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>In 2012 when I was trying to make my game, <a title=\"SlotFriendzy Game \u2013 a Passion Project\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arnoldbiffna.com\/2014\/05\/18\/slotfriendzy-game-a-passion-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SlotFriendzy<\/a> profitable, I felt the need for an Admin tool to analyze the game&#8217;s usage and performance. I didn&#8217;t want\u00a0it to be hosted on the web and decided to build it as a Windows Desktop App. I chose Visual Studio and built it on the .NET 4.5 Framework, along with a <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.mysql.com\/downloads\/connector\/net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MySQL C# Connector<\/a> I downloaded from the MySQL\u00a0web site.<\/p>\n<p>For security reasons, I <em>normally<\/em> would <em>not<\/em>\u00a0put a database connector directly in a client-side application, but in this case, the intended audience was\u00a0very a specific population &#8211; me. Designing a Form based app in Visual Studio was easy, and this simple layout made it easy to add commands every time I thought of something I wanted to query on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>I named it <em>MookieData<\/em> because the game belonged to my company, Mookie Games Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In 2012 when I was trying to make my game, SlotFriendzy profitable, I felt the need for an Admin tool to analyze the game&#8217;s usage and performance. I didn&#8217;t want\u00a0it to be hosted on the web and decided to build it as a Windows Desktop App. I chose Visual Studio and built it on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/2014\/06\/01\/mookiedata-c\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MookieData C#&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18,30],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c-vb-net","tag-c","tag-mysql"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1808,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/1808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}